alt Hacker News> how exactly does one walk into a shopify store?
If they have a POS Terminal at their physical brick and mortar store powered by Shopify, they can do just that [0] and it accepts crypto payments.
The same for Stripe Terminal which allows contactless payments with stablecoins such as USDC [0] for physical stores. They can accept crypto from there and Stripe handles the transaction seamlessly.
[0] https://www.shopify.com/uk/pos
[1] https://www.privy.io/blog/contactless-payments-with-stableco...
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where i live 95% of the shops use a terminal from SIX[0], small shops use SumUp[1] or TWINT(as far as i understand that's comparable to venmo). i've seen about <5 shops with bitcoin stickers, mostly abroad. and they were mostly vape shops, interestingly enough. guess there's no demand at all for crypto in the physical spaces i'm a part of.
which makes sense, you'd either end up paying in pegged, virtual crypto dollars, or pay with a completely separate crypto currency which then means that the shoes you bought a month ago are suddenly worth a magnitude more or less. might as well pay in turkish lira.
[0]https://www.six-group.com/en/home.html [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SumUp
Ah okay, so your pedantry about it being USDC and not Bitcoin was unnecessary and "it exists and you can use crypto to pay" is in a made-up fantasy world where you can in fact do that.
Like can you pay with crypto at a Stripe POS when the infrastructure goes down? Or was this just completely irrelevant?